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menuet

menuet is the alternative form of minuet.

Meaning of minuet

Noun

minuet (plural minuets)

  1. A slow graceful dance consisting of a coupé, a high step, and a balance.
  2. A tune or air to regulate the movements of the minuet dance: it has the dance form, and is commonly in 3/4, sometimes 3/8, measure.
  3. A complete short musical composition inspired by and conforming to many formal characteristics of the traditional musical accompaniment to the dance of same name.
  4. A movement which is part of a longer musical composition such as a suite, sonata, or symphony which is inspired by and conforming to formal characteristics of the dance of same name.

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Forms of menuet

pluralmenuets

Questions about menuet

What is menuet the alternative form of?
Menuet is the alternative form of minuet.

Words near menuet in the dictionary

  1. menuboards
  2. menudo
  3. menudos
  4. menued
  5. menuese
  6. menuet
  7. menuets
  8. menuetto
  9. menuettos
  10. menuing
  11. menuki

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Adapted from Wiktionary: menuet (page history and authors); minuet (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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